Native & Naturalized Plants of the Carolinas & Georgia

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4222

Forb
Annual

Depending on variety, native to the Carolinas & Georgia or only to NC

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Uncommon

Look for it in tidal marshes, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Summer
Rose-lavender (throat lined with yellow)
Bisexual
Weakly bilaterally symmetrical
5-parted calyx
5-parted campanulate corolla
4 included stamens (2 long, 2 short)
Superior ovary
Flowers in terminal racemes

FRUIT:
Summer
Capsule

 

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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
 Agalinis maritima +   FAMILY Orobanchaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Agalinis maritima +   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 166-25-002:
 Agalinis maritima   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
 Gerardia maritima

 

COMMON NAME:
 Seaside Gerardia

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image of Agalinis maritima +, Seaside Gerardia

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_agma3_001_lvd